My Magical Cottagecore Life
Kenya T. Coviak 342 episodes Jun 19, 2025
My Magical Cottagecore Life is a podcast that explores magic, festivals, and teachings alongside everyday life. Host Kenya T. Coviak shares conversations about life in Detroit, plants, nature, and kindness. The show blends cottagecore themes with personal reflections and gentle storytelling. It is an informal, heartfelt space for listeners interested in a slower, more magical lifestyle.
Episodes
An Anti-Skunk Garden 🍃 🦨
It's skunk wandering season! If you are on the skunk pathways, this garden might help you. Let's also chat about some Detroit history about Skippy Candles.
Ascension Day Pomegranate Quail 🌞
Here's a recipe for my friends who celebrate Ascension Day with a great feast. I love all my friends and find joy in sharing meals with many people of differing faiths. Enjoy.
Dandelion Wine Tips 🌼
Let's chat about some hints on gathering dandelions for wine.
Pea Planting Time 🫛
It's pea Planting Time. let's chat about peas, pots, and my secret tomatoes.
April is Ramp Season 🍃
It's time for Ramp, or bear garlic, season here in Michigan! Let's talk about how to enjoy this yummy Spring treat.
Using Glass Juice Bottles for Storage 🫘
I love repurposing this to keep them out of unnecessary waste. One of my favorite ways is to use Everfresh juice bottles, or other juice bottles. I store rice, beans, herbs, pasta, and more. Let's talk about it.
Roasted Pumpkin Seed and Fig Compote 🥣
Let's chat about a set recipe from my book "Scythe and Seed: An Autumnal Cookbook ". This one is sweet treat that can also be good for lifting your spirits.
You can find my book on Amazon. https://a.co/d/4BuHGgr
Kitty Crack by Lotions, Potions, and Notions 🐈
Today's episode is sponsored by the legendary maker of Kitty Crack, LJ Rose and her company Lotions, Potions, and Notions. I've lived her products for over a decade. I cannot recommend them highly enough. Find her here. She leaky makes hundreds of products.
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Seasonal Feasts 🥘
Let's talk about seasonal feasting. Whether planning, or making memories by attending, they are a unique part of our social tapestries.
Roasted Sweet Potato, Pumpkin Seeds, and Black Bean Tacos 🌮
Let's share a recipe from my cookbook " Scythe and Seed: An Autumnal Cookbook". This is Roasted Sweet Potato, Pumpkin Seed, and Black Bean Tacos. I love sharing recipes with my friends, and we're friends, right?
You can find it on Amazon or on Spiral Moon Publishing .
Message me through the Facebook page for My Magical Cottagecore Life before Christmas and you could win a copy of this book.
Winter Apple Stuff 🍎
Let's talk about apples.
Winter, and a couple of neat things you can do with sugar, apples and coffee grounds will be a fun chat.
Fruit Drop Candies 🍬
Let's make candy with fruit juice and 2 other simple kitchen ingredients. No thermometer is needed for this recipe. also, we can put a twist on it by adding common herbs. Let's get started.
Cinnamon Ornaments🎀
Hello, this is Kenya, and Happy Thanksgiving.
I hope you had a wonderful holiday. I finally found a platform that will allow us to spend thing together again. So let's celebrate by making some festive holiday Ornaments of of cinnamon.
I also share a memorials holiday story about my mishap when making dough Ornaments, years ago.
HEED MY WARNING ABOUT THE RED HOT CANDIES! Haha!
Let's get star
Cantaloupe Butter 🍈
A great recipe found online from Rhonda F. Thank you so much!
Let me know if you try it.
Cattail and Possibilities 💫🌱
It is cattail season, wherever you may be, in Michigan. Those beautiful long blades of green have a lot of useful properties and things you may not even have heard of. They can be food. They can make baskets. And they're home to wildlife and insects. They are a vital part of the ecosystem. And they're so fluffy. Let's give a good look at these because they're really cool.
Homemade Hair Conditioner 🧴
It's a beautiful day and let's try something new. I love watching my hair when I'm feeling in a kind of bleh mood. I love giving myself a little extra treat with the pretty sense and the soft lather but what I love most of all as part of the process is the conditioner. A good conditioner can lift your mood. And I'm going to tell you how to make your own homemade conditioner so that you can actuall
Juneteenth 7UP Cake Recipe 🍰 ☀️
Let's share a recipe for 7UP pound cake. This cake has a lot of cultural relevance to the holiday of June 10th. However, it's not about just a cake made with a soft drink. There's other facets to how special this recipe is. Memories and hand it down appreciations from family reunions of the past. We're having a special podcast family recipe share. There's no one else I'd love to share this recipe
When life gives you bad cherries 🍒
What do you do with 5 lb of fermented cherries? Well, let's find out together. Whether it's making ink, or possibly using it to die some sheets and pillowcases, let's see what happens. Sometimes the unexpected can lead to unexpected opportunities. Not everything is a win. But a fail is nothing more than a chance to try again. Let's chat.
Faygo Love Episode 🥤
This is the bonus episode. In many of our episodes over the years together, we've mentioned Faygo. I love Faygo. But for many of you, you don't really know what it might be if you've never encountered it. Faygo is an iconic soda company founded in 1907 in Detroit.
Let's chat about it, 80's hair, and memories of ICP costumes.
Special thanks to #Serge Quadrado Music for the song "clown panic".
#Serg
Pants Stretchers and Faygo Bottles 👖
Today we're going to talk about the pants stretchers. There are a couple of kinds. And it's a forgotten item that many people are still using but if you've never heard of it it might be something to look into you for your own laundry needs. It definitely cuts down on ironing in one version. The other will definitely help you with that extra piece of pie you might have had. If your closet has a ten
Hazel Nut Serviceberry Cookies 🍪 🫐
This is a fun episode. It's not very long and it's not very complicated. We're going to make hazelnut cookies with a Serviceberry edition. Just on the top. There's also a gratuitous Taylor Swift reference. Let's get started.
White Campion Visits My Garden 🏡
An unexpected visitor in the form of white campion appeared in my garden home. Known also as the Flower of the Dead, let's chat about it. Also, let's talk about changes to the show.
Hot Teas for Hot Days 🍵 ☀️
It's hot outside. Let's cool down with hot teas.
Lemon Verbena Pickled Squash 🌿🫙
If you are a fan of lemony flavors, pickles, and squash, this is the recipe for you! This is one of my original recipes, and I wanted to share it with you because I'm planting lemon verbena. Or actually, my husband Planted lemon verbena. But I helped.
We have a stash of lemon verbena that could terrify most herbalists. And that's partly because I use it for my asthma. But eating things flavored w
It's Lilac Cordial Time🪻
It's time to go out and forage and get those lilacs going into those pots. Lilac cordials or something you can only make when they're blooming so catch spring before it's gone away. Shout out to Will Forage For Food because I can.
Ramp Time at Eastern Market 💚
Is that special time of year again when ramps are available at Eastern market. Let's get some.
Foraged Blossom Deviled Eggs 🥚 🌺
Hurry before it's too late. All the things are blossoming but the weather is trying to make the blossoms close all too soon. It's not too late for most of us though.
We're using crabapple blossoms, apple blossoms, forsythia blossoms, and cherry blossoms. Maybe a redbud might creep into this as well. Grab those blossoms and add them to your deviled eggs recipes for pretty pretty tasty snack.
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Putters and Parasols ⛳
Let's make some lovely memories with putters and parasols. Decorating your own and joining with friends for a quick few rounds of miniature golf will make great days to look back on and cute photographs.
My Speech on Fallow Fields 🌾
At different times I'm called upon the speech at different groups. In this particular case, I was given the opportunity to speak at Unity of Blue Water in Port Huron Michigan last year in 2023. I'm sharing that speech here in hopes that you will find joy in it.
Half Moon Cherry, Blackberry, and Mulberry Dumplings 🥟
Let's make our own Half Moon Dumplings. Not exactly like Ukrainian vareniki, but still yummy.
Eclipse Time Capsule 🌝 🎁
Eclipses are not everyday events. In fact, the next one won't happen again for another half lifetime. Let's make a time capsule for this one.
Baking Vanilla Wafers & Memories 💕
One of my fondest memories is sharing vanilla wafers with my dad. On a rainy day I want to make vanilla wafers and share some memories with you. And also warm up the house a bit. This recipe comes from a 1939 recipe by Sara Hentz. The cookbook was "The Household Searchlight Recipe Book". Enjoy.
So Set for Sorrel 🌿
This is the time of year when we look at garden catalogs and we decide what we're going to plant. Well sweet greens are preferable to many pallets I find that a little bit of bitterness adds value to flavor. I'm also including my kitchen pepper remedy in this episode. But because I know some of you aren't always near a pen I'm going to write it here in the description. One part dehydrated sorrel,
Loving On Your Garden Apron 🪡 🫧
Maintaining your garden apron's appearance, durability, and suitability for purpose isn't hard. It can be simple, really. Let's have a chat about how to keep it in great shape.
The Quirky Breakfast Episode
Wanna eat like me? I mean, like when I'm eating my quirky kitchen concoctions? Here's an episode of some of my recent combinations. Enjoy.
Dandelions, Spring, & Green Rumaki 💚
It's supposed to be spring here in michigan. The equinox is already happened. But as we know, Michigan doesn't care and there's a blanket of snow everywhere. Right now the dandelions are sleeping and waiting to wake up. Let's talk about how we're going to eat them. Hahaha. Also, enjoy my very strange and unusual offering about how to make a green, dandelion-based, kind of rumaki.
Queen's Delight, Questionable Love Lore 💕
You've probably heard of Queen Anne's lace. But have you ever heard of the plant called Queen's Delight? This plant, stillingia sylvatica, has folklore about love and syphilis. Wow, what a combination right? It also has pretty yellow flowers and alleged health remedies associated with it. It may be blooming right now. Let's chat about it.
Today's music is "Adding the Sun Kevin MacLeod (incompetec
Cleavers and Cobra Chickens 🌱
Right about now cleaver should be popping up all over the place, near you, in their customary areas. Also known as goose grass, and other names, this plant is good for chasing out Waters in The body. However, there's some caveats to that. Never forget, though, the Cobra chickens are everywhere. The Canadian Goose requires constant vigilance if you're "out and about". Love to my Maple Leaf Friends.
Scandinavian-ish Jelly Cookies 🍪
It's a dreary day and it's a good day to make jelly cookies. There's Scandinavian inspired, but I am insisting on adding a little bit of pepper which changes the mix. Let's bake together.
Don't Forget Scorpion Grasses🍃
Let's chat about Scorpion Grasses. You probably have them in your garden right now. These little blue flowers have a lot of symbolism and history.
Gardening, Vegan Sunflower Sour Cream, and Billie Holiday 🌻 🌌
Is that time of year when you begin to prepare your plans for your garden. There's something special I want to make this year at harvest Time with the sunflower seeds. I want to make a vegan sour cream dressing. This got me thinking about self-reliance and I talk a little bit about it. It also made me think about my mother, who really loved Billie Holiday. So I talk a little bit about that and sel
Time to Chit Potatoes 🥔 ☀️
Is the time of year when a potatoes are beginning to get away from us and they're beginning to sprout, or chit. Today we're going to discuss how to do that on purpose. This way we can get ready to plant our potatoes later. Also, check out David the Good's episode on growing from store bought potatoes. #davidthegood
Pepperwort Comes in Spring 🌱
Let's chat about paperwork. This little plant is also known as garden crest. Whether you eat it as a pot herb, and salad, or as a bitter herb for a religious observance, this little plant has a long history. It's been used as a medicine. It's been used as a universal cure ingredient. Let's chat about it together and maybe you'll be inspired to plant it in your spring garden this year. I can't wait
Making Ambrette Seed Musk Oil🌺
A personal scent is something that lingers in the mind. Making your own musk from ambrette seeds can create your own signature presence. You can do this at home with minimal effort. Abelmoschus moschatus, Musk Mallow, is your plant source for a light scent that smells a little like deer musk.
Let's get started.
Making China Mosaics 🔨
There's a lot of good space in your day to find the new hobby to explore. Taking some of your old mismatched plates, or even great finds at a flea market, and turning them into art is awesome. Let's chat about how to express your softer side with a hammer.
Basic Hand Embroidery Stitches 🧵
Let's look at some basic embroidery stitches that you might want to know if you're learning how to do this by hand. We also will talk a little bit about one of my favorite movies because it has embroidery in the storyline. Can you guess which one it is? It's a cult classic.
Stew Chicken & Turnip Broth 🍲
January brings grey skies and grieving. Let's make a healing broth with a stew chicken, some herbs, turnips, and mushrooms. A blueberry and lemon tart can add a bit of sunshine to the day. Welcome to Season 4.
Navigating Gift of Life ❤️❤️❤️
Dealing with the end of life of a loved one can be challenging. When my mother died last week, Gift of Life helped us through the organ donation process with care and grace. Thank you to the staff at Detroit Receiving Hospital, and Gift of Life, for giving my mother honor and care. Find out more about gift of life here https://giftoflifemichigan.org/. You can even be a volunteer.
#giftoflife
Sunny Honey Candy 🍯🍬 ☀️
Let's make a piece of the Sun, courtesy of our friends, the bees. Today we're making honey candy. Special Shout out to our sponsor Mystical Mysti Candles! Located in North Carolina, in the United States of America, her candles are hand poured and beautiful. Check out www.mysticalmysticandles.com. Tell her you heard about her here. Her products are awesome sauce.
#mysticalmysticandles
Stuffed Animal ER DIY 🧸 ⛑️
If you've ever had to repair stuffed animal, you know it can be messy and challenging. Express emergency care in a prepared box can make it a learning activity. Let's make a stuffed animal repair box. Don't forget the lollipop for after the operations.
Tips for After Thanksgiving 🦃 🏃🫙
Another Thanksgiving has come and gone. It's time to relax and just enjoy the glow of family, if you don't have to go back to work right now. The house is clean and all bellies are relatively satisfied. But don't forget there's a few helpful hints that can still be part of the day after the holiday.
Holiday Yarn Stars ⭐ 🧶
It's Thanksgiving tomorrow here in Michigan. And it is definitively cold. However, there's warmth in our hearts. If you have pudding people, stroller citizens, or other idle hands inhabiting the inside of your home during cook time, this is a craft that will be wonderful for you. It encourages them to go OUTSIDE. At least to gather twigs. It's an easy craft, and keeps them from being underfoot in
Easy PotLuck Weenies in Sauce 🍅🥄
Scrambling for a last-minute potluck dish for the office or thanksgiving? I've got you covered. Let's share a simple recipe, with some easy variations, on a classic quick potluck dish.
Slow Cooker Candied Pumpkin 💕
A deliciously sweet recipe with piloncillo and pumpkin.
Slow Cooker Elk or Deer Stock 🫎 🦌 🦴
Hunting season started and now it's truly time to get ready to remember how to make stock from game animals like deer or elk. If you're lucky enough to have gotten an elk tag, and got the harvesting, then this is a great recipe for you to use in order to extend the flavor of the bounty to other meals as well as any stews you want to make from the meat. A lot of gelatin can be extracted from a knuc
Slow Cooker Venison Sausage w/ Ramps 🦌 🧅
Let's get those Hunters fed and full with an easy slow cooker recipe of venison sausage, ramps, and peppers. Time to pull out the venison stock and your ramp stash from Spring. Special Love to the Michigan Hunters. Be safe out there.
Slow Cooker Navy Beans w/Smoked Turkey, Pork, or Goat 🐐 🫘 🦃
Today let's keep away the winter chills with a nice hot slow cooker filled with wonderful Navy beans, smoked meat, and rich flavors. We can even break out our magnolia honey and serve with biscuits or with cornbread on the side. Let's get started.
Slow Cooker Catalina Apricot Chicken 🍲
Time for slow cooker holidays. This recipe is great for beginner cooks, or students. Catalina dressing, apricot preserves, and some other key ingredients will make this a "go to" one.
7 Spice Slow Cooker Turkey 🦃 🇱🇧
It's slow cooker season and I'm back. I had a little trouble uploading episodes for the last couple of weeks. But I'm back and I brought with me a slow cooker recipe that uses Lebanese seven spice. In addition to this, there's also a recipe for zuke and juice rice.
Let's get started. Music by
A Desert Tale - Ethnic & Fantasy Background Music
OB-LIX, Royalty Free Music
Nutella Raspberry Chocolate Slow Cooker Cake 🍰 🍲
Let's make Nutella cake in the slow cooker, and top it with a raspberry chocolate glaze! I am not sponsored by Nutella. But this episode IS sponsored by the Michigan Witches Bazaar in Michigan. #michiganwitchesbazaar
Music by Music by Yrii Semchyshyn from Pixabay
Pomegranate Skin Tea 🫖
It's time for Persephone days as well as pomegranates. What a great time to take the skins from the pomegranate and dry them for tea.
Blackberry Leaf Tea Harvest 🌿🍃
It's time to get your blackberry leaves harvested before it's too late. They either are on Vines around brambles. They are useful for many things as a tea, or even as a poultice. In this episode we even talk a little bit about another use that you may not know about. Let's get started.
Raspberry Leaf Tea and Folklore 🍵 🌿
Raspberry leaves are a long believed tonic for women's health. Specifically, it's believed to help women and girls strengthen uterine health. It also helps with colds, breast milk, and peri menopause. There's some folklore, too. Special shout out to Lotions, Potions, and Notions LLC, in Michigan. LJ Rose carries safe, affordable, and organic herbs that I can trust.
Peach Leaves for Tea 🍑 🌿
Time to harvest peach leaves. They can be added to tea leaves, or used as a tisane in their own.
Apple Leaf Tea Harvest Time 🍎🍏 🌿
Let's chat a bit about gathering leaves for apple leaf tea. We'll also put a twist on the plain tea with a sweet addition.
A Leaf Autumnal Album Project 🍁🍂
It's autumn, or fall as we call it here in the Midwestern United States. Is the time to be thinking of pumpkins, hot chocolate, and apple cider. It's also the time when you can see the most beautiful free color show that nature can put on. This is the time also that you might want to take your little ones, or you're not so little ones, and go out and gather leaves and make an autumnal album. Best
Leaves of Leather 🌿
Let's chat about a gorgeous evergreen called leatherleaf viburnum. It blooms twice a year, and has a beautifully textured leaf surface. But do NOT eat it.
Box Elder Seed Snacking 🍃
Time to gather up the box elder seeds for eating. Get them before they are gone. Let's chat about it, AND share some thoughts on compassion and mistakes in the nature based living space.
Soft Zucchini Casserole 🥘😋
For some people, the words zucchini lasagna make more sense than zucchini casserole. However, I really like zucchini casserole and think that lasagna might be better represented with just the pasta. But no judgment. So I'm going to call this zucchini casserole and I hope you'll enjoy it. He contains lots of veggies, and if you bake it for a very long time it's nice and soft and will help for peopl
Rosemary Summer Honey 🍯
Time to get the herbs into the honey at the end of summer. The clover honey is gathered, and the heavier goldenrod honey will be a bit too much for some of my garden. Let's talk about rosemary, my favorite, and learn how it's done.
Festival Season Prep
Join me as I go to a Summer Festival here in Metro detroit. One of our sponsors, spiral Moon family circle, has put on the Detroit Pagan Pride Day. This event is not affiliated with the Pagan Pride Project. Let's talk about Festival prep during the summer season.
Pillowcase Dresses 👗 🪡
Let's talk about pillowcase dresses, Little Dresses For Africa, and more.
You can find patterns online, with instructions. Don't be afraid to embroider, paint, or add extra love to the project. This episode is in no way promoting, or excluding, any faith or people in its intention. For a great resource, I recommend the pattern created by Melissa Mortenson on her blog, Polkadot Chair. https://www.p
Green Sage & Rose Culinary Ash 🔥
It's been a minute, but I'm back from vacation and I wanted to share my experience on making culinary ash. Let's chat a bit about what it is, what it does, and how to make it. Big shout out to Bosslady Anish for the sharing of her technique on her channel.
"Self Heal" Honey 💐 🍯
Let's meet Self Heal, or, what I was taught to call it, Heals All Wounds. Prunella Vulgaris is in season right now. This is a great time to make a healing honey. Today's music "Ethernight Club" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Saucy Alice in the Garden 🏡
Lady's Thumb (Polygonum Persicaria) Or Saucy Alice, is all around the fields and gardens at this time of year. It's a great time to talk about her, and maybe much a bit of her alongside other green visitors.
Dry Scallop Mushroom Cake 🍄
Here's a fun recipe including dry scallops, radishes, mushrooms, and Chinese sausages. However, I have to make some weird substitutions. Oh dear. Gratuitous reference to "Repo Man" opera. Make sure to think about trying Coffee Brand Coffee, I'm an affiliate. Use discount code: Cottagecore.
Brathering 🇩🇪🧅🐟
I love eating herring, and using traditional recipes. I think both of these can go together in this dish. Today we're going to talk about Brathering. I found a wonderful recipe online and I'd like to give credit to the person who supplied it. I'd also like to give you the information for the recipe here.
Brathering Recipe by Roy Denman
8 herring
3 onions
100 gr flour
Pinch salt and pepper
700 ml
Fish Onion Dip Variations 🧅 🐟 🍋
I was watching videos on social media and saw this wonderful recipe. If I'm not mistaken, the original credit for the original recipe belongs to the other user called the Funky Fishmonger. However, I have my own spin on this. But I'm one of those people who always believes in sharing credit or credit is due. So Funky Fishmonger, if this is your original recipe, thank you so much.
Last Chance Mulberry Jam Time 🫙
Mulberry season is almost over. Did you make your jam yet? You can find any recipe online, this is just a quick summary about it, and maybe something to help you make some memories. If you follow the technique given here, you can either keep it in your refrigerator or can it according to safe canning instructions for fruits like strawberries. Don't forget, I am also an affiliate for Coffee Brand C
Grape Leaf Dolma 🍇
I love dolma! Let's talk a bit about how it's made.
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